Lode Runner 1 does a lot of work to try and make the original game a bit slicker for modern audiences, but also to use modern visuals to recontextualize the experience. Now, you’re some kind of futuristic person with a laser blaster outrunning robots. You climb ladders, shimmy across poles, and blast brick floors to trap robots chasing you, and try to collect all the gold to escape each level. With that are controls that try to adapt to touchscreens just enough. There’s a d-pad, but you can drift and use it like a joystick, with an indicator on-screen showing the angle you’re pointing, so you know if you’re going to be going down, or set to roll to the side when you land. It’s a port that smooths out a lot of what rough edges you’d get from something like Lode Runner Classic, that tries to play like the original for better or worse. The levels in the main mode of Lode Runner 1 are smaller, but you can play Classic mode where they’re a lot bigger and more difficult.